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As US Military Prepares for War on China, Silicon Valley Tech Oligarchs Are...
Evidence grows showing that the US military is setting the stage for war on China. A leaked memo obtained by the Washington Post reveals that the US Department of Defense has made preparing for war...
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A Pro-Climate Society of Care and Connection Against Trump’s Blackmail
As noted in my previous article, Canada and Quebec’s commercial entanglement in the US economy is profound following thirty years of “free trade,” with neoliberal capitalism as its legacy. Suddenly,...
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By Disaster or Design: A Post-Growth World is Coming
The mission of Arketa Institute for Post-Growth Finance is to normalize the conversations about ecological economics and a post-growth economy in the worlds of economics and finance. We recently...
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Global Repercussions of Trump’s Withdrawal from Climate Politics
Since its inauguration, the Trump administration has embarked on an aggressive agenda to dismantle vital environmental regulations and climate change initiatives, both at home and abroad. It has...
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ICE Contracts Avelo Airlines to Fly Deportees: Locals Prefer Their ICE Crushed
Avelo Airlines has entered into a controversial agreement with US immigration authorities to operate deportation flights, sparking protests from coast to coast. Activists, legal organizations, and...
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Could Trump’s Tariff War Reshape Global Capitalism?
Sam Gindin is a former research director for the Canadian Auto Workers union and Packer Visiting Chair in Social Justice at York University. He is also the coauthor of The Making of Global Capitalism:...
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May Day 2025: Labor Can Resist and Grow In a Time Of Peril
In the best tradition of May Day, labor and community networks across the country are activating existing coalitions and forming new ones to launch mass mobilizations on May 1, 2025. We will demand...
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Rebuked by Kashmiris, Let Not Pakistan’s General Munir Succeed in Other Parts...
The denominational terrorist killings in Pahalgam, instigated by Pakistani Army chief Asim Munir’s invocation of the pernicious two-nation theory have had a salutary consequence in the valley. For the...
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Community Struggles For Self-Governance In the Global South
Are we really free? With this seemingly straightforward yet provocative question, Vijay Dethe from Pachgaon village in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra, India, opened several philosophical and...
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Letters From an American: Change Afoot In the Democratic Party
There has been a change afoot in the Democratic Party for a while now as its leaders shift from trying to find common ground with Republicans to standing firmly against MAGAs and articulating their own...
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Lessons From the History of May Day
May First is a labor holiday that originated in the anti-labor repression and violence in the USA in the Gilded Age of the late 1800s. That was the era when Social Darwinism was the dominant ideology...
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How Canada’s Costed Platforms Could Shift Spending from Military to Human...
Canada just held its federal election this week. I watch it closely because I have dual US and Canadian citizenship. I’ve always been intrigued by the way that all political parties in Canada literally...
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Sixty-Eight Reported Killed by US Airstrike on African Migrant Facility in Yemen
Sixty-eight people were killed by a US airstrike on a detention facility for African migrants in Yemen’s northwestern Saada province, Yemen’s Al Masirah TV has reported. Another 47 were injured by the...
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Seven Reasons Why East and West Germany Are Divided
Even after almost 35 years when the so-called German Reunification which was, in reality, a bit more like an Anschluss wherein West-Germany simply took over East-Germany occurred, a divided Germany...
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The Limitations of Military Might
Although the statement that “power grows out of the barrel of a gun” was made by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, it’s an idea that, in one form or another, has motivated a great many people, from...
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Why Trump’s Ukraine War ‘Kellogg Plan’ Collapsed
When President Trump ran for office in 2024 he promised to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine within 100 days of taking office. The unofficial centerpiece of his plan was the proposals raised...
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Tariffs, US-China Trade War, and the Imperialist New Cold War
Will 125% tariffs on China bring jobs back to the US or they a nonsensical escalation of the trade war with China? What’s really going on? Founder and journalist of the Geopolitical Economy Report, Ben...
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The Vietnam and Gaza Wars Shattered Young Illusions About U.S. Leaders
Eight years before the U.S.-backed regime in South Vietnam collapsed, I stood with high school friends at Manhattan’s Penn Station on the night of April 15, 1967, waiting for a train back to Washington...
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Precarious Workers Are Employees Without Stability, Not “Entrepreneurs”
A belief that the rise of so-called “platform capitalism” and the classification of working people in those sectors as “independent contractors” mean that the concepts of employer and employee are out...
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As Aid Ends, Empire Endures
In recent months, Western governments have been loudly rethinking their aid strategies. The US announced a dramatic reduction in foreign assistance, claiming that the “foreign aid industry”...
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